CIBER Resources

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To learn more about Dr. Orlando Kelm's language learning project visit this blog and for his intercultural communication project visit this blog.

Tools for Business Language Learning

Video Series: Cultural Interviews with International Business Executives

This CIBER-funded program is a compilation of over 800 brief video clips. Foreign executives discuss cultural issue of interest to North Americans - from negotiation practices to social situations.

The interviews offer the opinions of real people, which are at times contradictory, and serve to stimulate discussion. They introduce diverse vocabulary in a professional setting, and offer non-native speakers of foreign languages examples of natural speech, illustrating the way that speakers really talk. The video clip library includes interviews in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, German, Turkish and Russian which can be viewed here.

Study Abroad Recruiting Resources

Study Abroad and Recruiting

The UT CIBER has collaborated with the CIBER at Michigan State University to produce an Online Resource for Study Abroad and Recruiting to help institutions and their students convey the value of study abroad to recruiters. The site includes a discussion forum in which study abroad and career professionals discuss ways to structure, undertake and describe study abroad to maximize its value as a differentiator on resumes and in interviews. It also features a video of an advising technique that helps students articulate their business-relevant experiences and learning from study abroad.

CIBER contributes every year a number of programs for UT’s International Education Week. We thought these presentations might be of interest to students and coordinators at other schools as well.

Do you speak American? (video)

Exchange Students and Study Abroad alumni share their experiences abroad. Hear their challenging, funny, and true student stories about studying abroad in the US or being an American student studying abroad.

Unpacking Seminar: I studied abroad. Will it get me a job?

Study abroad alumni, study abroad advisors, academic advisors, and career services advisor talk about making the most out of their study abroad experience. Watch Fenny Jie, a CIBER Summer Program participant, and Andrea Chytil, a McCombs academic advisor, "unpack" Fenny's study abroad experiences from the CIBER Edinburgh Program.

CIBER Alumni Student Panel

Question: How did you pay for study abroad?

Question: What were the dorms like?

Question: Were you able to access the internet?

Money Matters (video and PowerPoint)

Learn more about the scholarship process and putting together successful applications from study abroad alum Bryan Turnbough and former CIBER program coordinator Angie Carter.

Money Matters: Scholarship and Financial Aid Information (PowerPoint)
Bryan Turnbough, a UT International Business and Asian Studies Major, presents the financial aid and scholarship process from the student perspective. Bryan has put this presentation together from his own study experiences and his research working at the Study Abroad Office on the Abroadly Speaking magazine.

International Program Models

Our goal in assembling this information is to provide examples of McCombs program models and materials that might serve as templates for other departments and institutions. The UT-Austin CIBER has had a role in developing a number of international program models for McCombs students, including:

Semester exchange (MBA and undergraduate)

Double degree (MBA)

Five-week study abroad (undergraduate)

Two-week course-based study tours (MBA)

An on-campus short-term program bringing undergraduate students from three partner universities to work with McCombs students